[ale] Copy of FS to PNY 32G USB Stick

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

Most of the USB sticks are molasses in winter slow. The really expensive
ones have much, much better performance.

I'm looking at 2.5" usb3 drive box with a fast SSD drive in the 128-512 G
range as fast backups.
On Dec 19, 2014 4:23 PM, "Chris Fowler" <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:

> I picked up a 32GB PNY USB stick off Amazon and decided to copy 22G of my
> development root onto it as backup. I develop on CentOS 5.7 in Ubuntu
> 12.04.  How? chroot into that tree.
>
> I have rsync scripts I use to backup RPis and BBBs to a 1T USB SATA
> device.  I copied that onto the stick after I formated it ext3.
>
> It was slow.  Dog slow.  My scripts are using options that would slow it
> down so I decided to do an initial seed using CP.  That took almost a day
> to do.
> Now the rsync script can get changes as I decide to.
>
> I've never tried to copy a system that large to a USB stick .  I've coped
> files, but not that many.  The SATA 1T on USB is much faster.  It is just a
> 1T SATA drive in a sled.
>
> Is that the nature of these USB sticks?  I'm just curious.
>
> Chris
>
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